Armour & Co.

In the Matter of ARMOUR & COMPANY and UNITED PACKINGHOUSE WORKERS LOCAL INDUSTRIAL UNION No. 347, THROUGH P. W. O. C., AFFILIATED WITH THE C. I. O. Case No. R-1561 CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES December 12, 1939 On October 24, 1939, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, issued its Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceeding.' On October 27, 1939, the Board issued an Amendment to the Decision and Direction of Election.2 Pursuant to the Amendment to the Decision and Direction of Elec- tion, an election by secret ballot was conducted on November 21, 1939, under the direction and supervision of the Regional Director for the Thirteenth Region (Chicago, Illinois). On November 28, 1939, the Regional Director, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, issued and duly served upon the parties an Election Report. The Regional Director reported the following results of the ballot : Total number eligible ---------- ---------------------------- 7253 Total ballots cast --- ---------------------------------------- 6468 Total ballots challenged____________________________________ 56 Total blank ballots________________________________________ 46 Total void ballots -------------------- :---------------------- 59 Total valid ballots cast_____________________________________ Total ballots cast for Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher 0307 Workmen of North America, Local 661___________________ 1047 Total ballots cast for United Packinghouse Workers Local Industrial Union No. 347, of the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee____________________________________ 4006 Total ballots cast for neither _______________________________ 1254 No objections to the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report have been filed by any of the parties. By virtue of and pursuant to the power vested in the National Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 1 16 N. L. R. B. 345. 116 N . L. R. B. 351. 18 N. L. R. B., No. 40. 255 256 DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD 8 and 9, of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations- Series 2, IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that United Packinghouse Workers Local Industrial Union No. 347, of the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee, has been designated and selected by a majority of the production and maintenance employees of Armour and Company, -at its Chicago, Illinois, plant, including general office and dressing- room janitors and matrons, plant storeroom employees, production and maintenance employees at the Ashland cold storage freezer, and butchers in the retail meat market of the Company, but excluding supervisors, foremen, and assistant foremen, clerical and office workers, timekeepers, steady-time checkers and scalers, firemen, policemen, and watchmen, guides, student employees, medical de- partment employees, teamsters and chauffeurs, garage mechanics and helpers, bricklayers, safety inspectors, chemists and technicians, employees in the plant restaurant, Morris garage and parking lot employees, street cleaners, messengers, tel-autograph employees, label storage department employees, and the stationery department em- ployees, as their representative for purposes of collective bargaining, and pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Act, United Packinghouse Workers Local Industrial Union No. 347, of the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee, is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.